The article presents an overview of sanitary microbiology, which deals with problems of providing adequate hygiene in humans at home, in hospitals, and in laboratories. It acts also in providing healthy food, water, and environment to prevent infectious diseases. It is interdisciplinary, as it encompasses cooperation within medical, veterinary, microbiology, chemistry fields. In Slovenia, sanitary laboratories are organized together with clinical or medical laboratories under the jurisdiction of Public Health institutes; this is optimal from the professional and organizational point of view. They work closely together with laboratories of sanitary chemistry, and units of epidemiology and hygiene. The majority of samples to be examined come from hospital hygiene, food, drinking water and environment. In the last 20 years the legislation and the main working practice in microbiological laboratories changed significantly. The primary reason is accession to European Union and acquisition of European legislation. In the field of hospital hygiene, hospitals must, through their Committees for prevention of hospital infections, respect Health legislation, because multi-resistant bacteria have the ability to spread inside and among institutions.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 31104217The article presents a comprehensive overview of complexity in medical microbiology with the major field discoveries during the past 20 years. Significant achievements of Slovenian clinical microbiologists in the field are discoveries during the past 20 years. Significant achievements of Slovenian clinical microbiologists in the field are described with the putting research achievements into practice, future research developments and improvement of pedagogical process of Microbiology studies. In medical microbiology, past 20 years was remarkably denoted by the major technological breakthroughs, which is reflected with discoveries of new and genetically changed pathogens, modern diagnostic methodologies, increasing automatization and standardization of the procedures. The major and international discoveries and achievements in the field of medical bacteriology, mycology, virology and parasitology are herein described. With internationally recognized research, Slovenian medical microbiologists became very efficient during the last two decades. Therefore, they have increased the level of high quality applicative and diagnostic studies which represents the fundamental framework of their professional and pedagogical work.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 31104473Dr. Poljak was Editor of the international monograph »Comprehensive control of HPV infections and related diseases in the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region« published as a supplement of the journal Vaccine. This is the first monograph that presents data on the incidence of HPV-related tumors, review procedures of cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination status in 28 European countries. Dr. Poljak is also the first author of Recommendations for cervical cancer prevention in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
Acta Dermatovenerologica APA is a relatively young medical journal which publishes primarily original scientific papers in dermatology and sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Acta Dermatovenerologica APA is the first medical scientific journal edited by Slovenian researchers which is indexed by Pubmed/Medline.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
The invited lecture given at the award symposium during the IX International Conference on HFRS HPS & Hantaviruses was entitled Dobrava Virus: Past, Present and Future. The lecture presented the long lasting research on the Dobrava virus, which was discovered by the author more than 20 years ago in Slovenia and further characterized in the following decade. Summary of all the research on the pathogenesis, ecology and epidemiology of Dobrava virus was presented.
E.02 International awards